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"This is a two part site-specific work. The first part, a dwelling or ‘house’, is an organic construction, fabricated without nails, glue, or paint. Because the walls have side fenestrations and the roof is open to the sky, its space is subject to the changing light conditions during the course of the day. This structure modulates sound. Nordman was originally a musician and all her scuptures are resonant bodies, where sound and sculpture are always joined. It is a work which can exist either assembled or dis-assembled. Nordman thus declares an equivalence between the whole and its parts.

"The second part is a 9’ x 9’ quilt with a minimal pattern in blue, red, green, black, and white which relates to the elements of the outdoor sculpture. This interior construction is illuminated solely by kerosene lamps, evocative of pre-industrial age dwellings.

"Both parts of this work were produced in collaboration with traditional Ontario Craftspersons."

(excerpt from Crossroads exhibition text)